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For many television viewers, the enduring image of Michael Elphick will be as the motorbike-mad private investigator Ken Boon in the hit ITV series. His trademark was the craggy face and croaky voice, ...

Daker in 1989: a Black Country man, he ‘thought I wouldn’t get any good acting parts if I didn’t speak posh, but I’ve used my own accent more than any other’ - Trinity Mirror/Mirrorpix/Alamy David ...